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Vetted AWS Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Venkat Palaparthi
Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and secure enterprise platforms
“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership in banking/identity & entitlements systems, building Spring Boot + Postgres/Redis services and React dashboards, then deploying on AWS EKS with Jenkins CI/CD. Demonstrated impact through reduced authorization latency and fewer access-related support tickets, plus strong observability and reliability practices (CloudWatch, tracing, autoscaling, Kafka pipelines with DLQs and reconciliation).”
Kwadwo Poku
Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud platforms
“Software engineer who built and launched an end-to-end Ad Scheduler that automated campaign creation across Google Ads and Meta using Azure Functions/Service Bus, PostgreSQL, and a React frontend—reducing manual marketing ops work. Also shipped a production internal RAG chatbot leveraging a data warehouse + Cube semantic layer, Gemini embeddings, vector search, and Claude, with Langfuse tracing and brand-based access controls; work was cut short due to layoffs.”
Erik Moyer
Director-level Data Science & Analytics Leader specializing in cloud data platforms and AI/ML
“Candidate states they are very familiar with the venture capital/studio/accelerator landscape and expresses strong willingness to pursue entrepreneurship "at all costs," but did not provide details on a current startup, business plan, fundraising, or prior accelerator/VC involvement during the interview.”
srilekha pothula
Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines for healthcare and financial services
“Data engineer with ~4 years of experience (Cigna) building and operating Azure Data Factory pipelines for healthcare claims/member/provider data at 2–3M records/day. Emphasizes reliability and downstream safety via schema/data-quality validation, quarantine workflows, idempotent processing, and backfills; also improved runtime ~20% through SQL optimization and served curated datasets through versioned views and well-documented, analyst-friendly interfaces.”
Ali Taquie
Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech payments
“Forward-deployed software engineer at PayStand who uses LLM prototyping tools (e.g., Cursor, Lovable) to rapidly build customer-specific demo environments and drive sales outcomes—citing ~$100K in technical buy-in before production development. Experienced supporting an enterprise expense management product (Teampay) with agentic AI workflows, emphasizing observability (Grafana/Loki/Tempo) and cross-functional communication with sales, product, developers, and customers.”
Asvad Shaik
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and NLP
“Backend engineer who built and migrated a large-scale document intelligence platform used by legal, healthcare, and insurance clients, processing millions of pages. Experienced moving from a monolithic, LLM-heavy approach to a modular FastAPI service architecture with ML classification + RAG, strong validation/auditability, and enterprise security (JWT/OAuth, RBAC, PostgreSQL RLS) with zero-downtime incremental rollouts.”
Abhishek Saraswat
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Java backend microservices
“Backend/distributed-systems engineer focused on automation and near-real-time processing, building Java/Spring Boot microservices with Kafka, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Strong in scaling and reliability work—debugging tricky asynchronous messaging issues (delays, duplicates, out-of-order events) and improving resilience/observability with retries, fallbacks, logging, and monitoring. No production ROS/ROS2 experience yet, but has studied core ROS concepts and draws clear parallels to event-driven architectures.”
Divya T
Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud microservices and data processing
“Data-focused engineer who has built near real-time trending news sentiment pipelines end-to-end (API/web ingestion, validation, transformations, and dashboard serving) and implemented reliability patterns like retries with exponential backoff and backfills. Also shipped Java/Spring Boot REST APIs backed by SQL with indexing/pagination, and stood up an early-stage QR-based attendance MVP using Firebase with iterative hardening via logging and validation.”
Agna Antony
Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud-native healthcare and enterprise data platforms
“Data Engineer (TCS) who owned an end-to-end CRM analytics pipeline for Bayer’s eSalesWeb integration, ingesting from Salesforce APIs/databases/S3 and serving analytics-ready datasets via PostgreSQL/S3 for Tableau. Drove measurable outcomes: ~60% reduction in manual data-quality effort, ~30% lower latency through SQL optimization, and ~35% improved stability via monitoring, retries, and idempotent processing.”
Robert Wheeler
Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in cloud, AI/ML, and scalable product platforms
“Technical leader and hands-on engineer with 20+ years of experience who has previously raised funding and exited a venture. Currently bootstrapping a new AI-direction startup with personal and family capital, leveraging structured financial planning and a relationship-driven approach to investor outreach.”
Teage Johnson
Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and machine learning
“Software engineer at early-stage startup Cari with hands-on experience shipping AI-enabled production workflows, including an LLM chatbot for a micro-transit platform and an automated image-processing pipeline integrated with Claude. Stands out for combining practical agent reliability patterns—schema validation, fallbacks, caching, and idempotency—with strong ML evaluation instincts and experience cleaning messy operational invoice data.”
varshini yaganti
Mid-level Data Analyst specializing in financial and customer analytics
“Analytics professional with experience at KPMG and Robosoft Technologies, working across financial and customer engagement data. They combine SQL, Python, experimentation, and BI dashboards to turn messy multi-source data into decision-ready insights, including a pricing test that improved conversion rates by 9%.”
scott graham
Executive customer experience and operations leader in SaaS, EdTech, and enterprise support
“Founder/operator with an MS in Finance who has helped grow an early-stage company from startup toward scaleup on roughly $400K raised, while delivering 25%+ YoY ARR growth and 100% retention without new capital for 30 months. Differentiates through a sharp eye for overlooked but mission-critical work like data cleansing, strong financial modeling instincts, and a hands-on, trust-building consulting style that wins long-term contracts in underserved sectors.”
Ajay Kancheti
Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in SaaS and FinTech
“Product-minded full-stack engineer focused on internal operations tooling, with hands-on ownership across React/TypeScript, serverless APIs, and Postgres. They combine UX simplification with deep performance and reliability work, citing a transaction-exception workflow redesign that cut task completion time by roughly 25%, and they’ve also built multi-tenant configurable systems with strong guardrails.”
Horst Evans
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in XR/VR simulation and training
“XR/gameplay engineer with unusually deep experience building complex simulation systems in Unity, including a motor grader vehicle that combined physics-driven controls, terrain deformation, and VR performance constraints on Quest-class hardware. Also owned Photon multiplayer for operating-room training sessions and contributed to a flagship MLB app spanning Quest, Vision Pro, desktop, and mobile.”
Martin Wells
Executive AI & Technology leader specializing in AI, streaming, and gaming platforms
“Worked at an accelerator and served as an Entrepreneur in Residence, providing CTO and general founder support to startups. Although not pursuing entrepreneurship personally, they bring direct exposure to early-stage company building and accelerator ecosystems.”
Wyatt Fong
Entry-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI and healthcare tech
“Built a Python pipeline to monitor and classify public posts from sources like Hacker News and Reddit for SWE/tech job opportunities, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and recoverable failures. Also currently building a court queueing system for the UCSD Badminton Club, showing an ability to turn messy, informal real-world processes into practical automation through iterative user feedback.”
Fernando Mosqueda
Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare AI and MLOps
“Healthcare AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production ML and LLM systems at McKesson, spanning clinical risk prediction and RAG-based documentation tools. Stands out for combining deep clinical-data experience, HIPAA-aware deployment practices, and measurable impact through reduced readmissions, clinician workflow gains, and 20% to 30% faster ML delivery for engineering teams.”
Phani K
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, NLP, and healthcare-financial ML
“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience shipping healthcare AI systems, including an oncology risk prediction platform and RAG-based clinical decision support tools. Stands out for combining clinical domain context with strong production engineering across Spark, FastAPI, AWS SageMaker, monitoring, evaluation, and safety guardrails.”
Matthew Woodings
Executive CTO and product engineering leader specializing in AI-first SaaS platforms
“Multi-time founding team member who helped raise capital at HotSchedules and Axial Shift, contributing investor-facing narratives around cost to serve, technology vision, scalability, and market opportunity. Motivated by building companies from the ground up, they bring a hands-on zero-to-one mindset paired with a strong understanding of what angels and VCs need to see in a scalable, standards-compliant product.”
Christopher Kizziar
Director-level IT operations leader specializing in cloud modernization and M&A integration
“Candidate is not pursuing a startup and is actively seeking employment, but brings several years of experience from a late-stage, well-funded startup. They show some familiarity with startup culture, especially the urgency, energy, and focus on creating value and demonstrating progress in real time.”
Apoorv Bankey
Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech
“Engineer who uses AI and multi-agent workflows as a force multiplier while keeping architecture, security, scalability, and production quality under human control. Shared a concrete example of accelerating a backend-heavy SaaS email ingestion platform with authentication, role-based APIs, database models, and deployment setup using agent-style development and review.”
Madina Nasriddinova
Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered developer tools
“Automation-focused engineer with hands-on experience building production Python integrations, maintaining 60+ Jenkins pipelines across six product lines, and hardening CI systems in real-world environments. Most notably, they turned a tribal-knowledge Windows server maintenance process into a production workflow across nine servers, saving about 500 engineering hours annually.”
Devang Borkar
Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLM agents and evaluation systems
“Built an end-to-end Python integration for an emotion-aware presentation feedback system that processed uploaded or live video and analyzed facial emotion, tone, and gestures. Also has Playwright automation experience in a loan management workflow, with emphasis on reliability, observability, security, and iterative delivery under ambiguous requirements.”